From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 08:00:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A1F16A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:00:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (62-15-72-65.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.72.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA8343D46 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:00:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.atosorigin.es [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BC12E01E; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:00:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4327D889.3050200@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:00:09 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050824) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kevin stovall References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless Boot Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:00:24 -0000 kevin stovall wrote: > I am trying to set up diskless boot with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA2. I am using > PXE which is successful and the diskless box finds the kernel fine, but > it hangs right before it would normally give the login prompt. It > displays the date and then hangs. I am unable to SSH in from other > machine. It boots fine into single user mode. Has anyone experienced > this or have any ideas? Does it correctly mount the root file system? What is your root file system? a memory file system downloaded with tftp or nfs mount? I had the same problem (I recall it hanging just after displaying the date) recently on my disked laptop because /etc/ttys was corrupt after a crash. Also, I had no problems booting in single-user mode. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9